| chokey | (noun) British slang (dated) for a prison | Synonyms: choky |
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| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| dickey | (adjective) (British informal) faulty | Synonyms: dicky |
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| (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickie, dicky, shirtfront |
| (noun) a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater | Synonyms: dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dickie, dicky-seat, dicky |
| dinkey | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinky |
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| donkey | (noun) domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn | Synonyms: domestic ass, Equus asinus |
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| (noun) the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| flakey | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
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| (adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| flukey | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, fluky, iffy |
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| flunkey | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunky, stooge, yes-man |
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| (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunky, lackey |
| hankey | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankie, hanky |
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| hickey | (noun) a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover | Synonyms: love bite |
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| (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: pimple, zit |
| hockey | (noun) a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net | Synonyms: field hockey |
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| (noun) a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks | Synonyms: hockey game, ice hockey |
| hokey | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, contrived, stilted |
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| (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
| honkey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkie, honky, whitey |
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| jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
| jockey | (noun) someone employed to ride horses in horse races | - |
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| (noun) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus | - |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| key | (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, primal |
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| (noun) metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated | - |
| (noun) a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed | - |
| (noun) mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | Synonyms: winder |
| (noun) the central building block at the top of an arch or vault | Synonyms: headstone, keystone |
| (noun) pitch of the voice | - |
| (noun) something crucial for explaining | - |
| (noun) any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music | Synonyms: tonality |
| (noun) a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access | - |
| (noun) a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations | - |
| (noun) a list of answers to a test | - |
| (noun) (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court | Synonyms: paint |
| (noun) a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida | Synonyms: cay, Florida key |
| (noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key fruit, samara |
| (noun) a kilogram of a narcotic drug | - |
| (verb) harmonize with or adjust to | - |
| (verb) regulate the musical pitch of | - |
| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key out, name |
| (verb) vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key | - |
| (verb) provide with a key | - |
| lackey | (noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunkey, flunky |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, crawler, sycophant, toady |
| latchkey | (noun) key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
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| malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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| monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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| (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, tamper |
| okey | (noun) an endorsement | Synonyms: O.K., OK, okay, okeh |
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| passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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| pokey | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, poky |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, poky |
| (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, poky, slammer |
| punkey | (noun) minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | Synonyms: biting midge, no-see-um, punkie, punky |
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| rickey | (noun) a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water usually with liquor | - |
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| turkey | (noun) large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food | Synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo |
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| (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: bomb, dud |
| (noun) flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted | - |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: joker |
| turnkey | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, jailor, prison guard, screw |
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| whiskey | (noun) a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | Synonyms: whisky |
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